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...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...er, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San... ... of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established their own pro-s... ...64, the Republicans became so unpopular, they had to change their name to the Union Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democr... ...aurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in the South, though never officially endorsed by it. It w... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ...

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.... As adults we are the objects – often the victims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho ... ...fuse an invitation by his boss, gets so nervous that he falls asleep and misses the party). Are these actions and intentions in their classical sens... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ...s preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip s... ...set or the liberating sensation of open spaces. "Green" accounting - adjusting the national accounts to reflect environmental data - is still in it... ...money and perks that come with it. They are no longer a disinterested and objective party. They have a stake in apocalypse. That makes them automat... ...nt manufacture should be tweaked; cap and trade (or tax) schemes implemented on the national, corporate, and individual levels; weather-resistant, ... ...ria and plants for instance). Why do all extraterrestrial species resemble the Nazi party is beyond me. The Six Arguments against SETI The variou...

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...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ...power comes upon the prophetic stage with its proper emblem, acting in its own separate nationality. And it is further manifest from the narration of... ...ophecies indeed included, but they included more; the captivity in Babylon being to the national Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 Irving: Preliminary Disco... ...tisement; but chiefly so, as it afforded a language of facts, in which to express their national captivity to this day, and in which also to express ... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ... ...cation by the works of the law, to rest their argument upon the mosaic law in which the party with whom they reasoned, did repose their trust, I thi... ...art literally, another allegorically, another analogically, and so composing of various party coloured shreds one thing, one whole, of which at last ... ...beginning of the fifth century, a very great multitude of Catholic doctors followed the party of the Millenarians: Whom (he is speaking of Apollinar...

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.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ...te gratification of a donut, the temptation of the TV, or the appeal of a party. It is so easy to follow the path of least resistance rather than the... ...k they will be willing to give up their desires to have children? Or that politicians or business people will volunteer to reduce their populations.... ...your children will be saddled with huge taxes to help pay off the immense national debt that resulted from your under-taxation, would you vote for t... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp...

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...ape from poverty and to a share of the global wealth. While India‘s gross national product is growing ours is stagnant. ―Much of India‘s inco... ...pples and berries in the pie filling. We have just signed a contract with Scottish shrimp companies to hand peel their shrimp at fifty cents an hour.... ...to have the shrimp machine peeled in Scotland by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lost their jobs, but over 2000 of our people now have jobs... ... all the time then just let it out to run the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National. ―To be prepared to meet the challenges of today‘s world we ... ... foster religion with your tax money. In fifty years you have developed a national religious tradition that I‘m sure has Jefferson turning over in h... ... fledgling democracies and absolute monarchies to warring militias or one party rule—there are a bunch of hungry mouths crying for food while a numb... ...ook some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary to win and carry out ... ... ―Some Indian states have mandated a maximum of two children for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. A... ...s for civil servants who opt for sterilization after one or two children. Politicians are being asked to set examples by limiting their offspring to...

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...ate an artificial universe in which synthetic contracts replace real ones and third party and moral hazards replace business risks. Moral hazard is... ...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... ...s of credit instruments, loans, corporate debt, and bonds - quality-graded by third party rating agencies. Insurance companies have thus become bac... ... $300 million, it will offer up to $1.5 billion per airline for passenger and third party war and terror risks. Some insurance companies - and corp... .... Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out last May in favor of... ...al Drugs" discovered immense variations in the prices of medicines among different national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences wer... ...onstructive competition - among scientists, innovators, managers, actors, lawyers, politicians, and the members of just about every other professio... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ...etail the newly acquired wealth and lavish lifestyles of formerly impoverished HZDS politicians. Some of them now reside in refurbished castles. Oth...

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...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...that the richest corporations can merge into even bigger, more powerful multi- national corporations; so more, and more money is sucked out of all the... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...ve there ever been one million people massed to protest against any political party? Any political convention ever? This shocking news should have ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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... the guests and afterwards brought me news about Alcaeus, how he left the party and wandered to the beach. There he quarreled with Charaxos, both ar... ...as rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lot of wine, Alcaeus slipped his arm... ...ve me earrings and papa gave me a brooch with a carnelian stone. We had a party on the beach and papa burnt his fingers in the fire as we cooked the... ...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir... ...difficult bridge between home and capitol. Crossing it, he is involved in national issues and problems he could not anticipate. About him is a sea o...

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...on a cheque, associating me with a tax file number and sees jeans, as the national dress of the unemployed. My dear mother is a typical example of a... ... farmer has one, every tourist wants one and is now a part of Australia’s national dress The dark, long, wet head of springs just scream to have fing... ...m determined my stay will be short and sweet; there will definitely be no partying or night clubbing. I hate the city; this place with all its probl... ...hands dirty or breaking a nail. On the other hand, Steven’s one hell of a party animal; now he’s going to be difficult to train. Maybe Ali could fin... ... smirks. “Chemists!” Ali thumps Steven in the arm. “You could pay off the national debt through rubber sales.” “Steven and Ali,” John continues, “wer... ...oking sisters; mind you, Ali never gets this treatment. Steven used to go partying with her, mainly because Ali could introduce him to other beautie... ...s and aggravation a mother goes through. I have two kiddies fighting like politicians in the house. They’re so bored; I can only pray they’ll kill e... ... I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I was saying, it was one hell of a step, belie...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ctory he had obtained, and Kilpont and his comrade Ardvoirlich were of the party. After returning to their quarters, Ardvoirlich, who seemed still to ... ...duct and prin- ciples contradict. That he was obliged to join the opposite party, was merely a matter of safety, while Kilpont had so many powerful fr... ...xtreme dislike to the Presbyterian model. In the West Highlands the ruling party numbered many enemies; but the power of these disaffected clans was s... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ...rom a contented people,—after all this, and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally ...

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...e at night, and left it in the morning, he was espied during the dawn by a party of the enemy, who fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortun... ...eekly Letter. [Long the oracle of the country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by cler... ...with the stern, rigid, and sometimes turbulent disposition of the Huguenot party. The Spanish had contributed to his stock of chivalrous and ro- manti... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ...

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...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...g pent and crappled and sometimes crippled ideas. And we went on a reading party that Easter to a place called Pulborough in Sussex, where there is a ... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a... ...itechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of ol...

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...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ... of Christendom as to the impossibility of ever suppressing the antagonist party by mere force of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinio... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...ren of Israel. In the case of one memorable outrage by a Hebrew tribe, the national ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all ... .... But the Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pur... ...s most remarkable, that the person who origi- nally headed the incredulous party, namely, Senor de Ferrer, a learned Castilian, was the very same who ... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near...

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...ence, leaning our faces on our hands and look ing at the fire, one of our party said, with the solemn air of a man who had made a discovery, ‘What a ... ... a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the far famed fast American steamer; and one party of men were ‘taking in the milk,’ or, in other words, American Notes ... ...ndingly gay everybody was: the forced spirits of each member of the little party having as much likeness to his natural mirth, as hot house peas at fi... ...s there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We hav... ...ny of the next one begins; which is an unspeak able comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country: that is to say, to ninety nin... ...of obtaining it, I suppose?’ ‘Well, I don’t know:’ which, by the bye, is a national answer. ‘Her friends mistrust her.’ ‘What have they to do with it... ...heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about the bases of the marble columns. But in s... ...gh character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ...

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...igned supreme, she now opened her salon to the notabilities of the liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon royalty doe... ...ng to the famous seventeen who were called “Great Citizens” by the liberal party,—namely, Francois Keller, of the house of Keller Bros., the son-in-la... ... the prince-royal, Charles Keller, now a vis- count, belonged to the court party of the citizen-king. The most brilliant future seemed pledged to a yo... ...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... ...ther pretty speculation—with the rest of the money he bought stock in the ‘National,’ where I meet him every time I want to have a laugh over the repu... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...

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...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul... ...een but one religion since the world began). Chris- tianity created modern nationalities, and it will preserve them. Hence, no doubt, the necessity fo... ...an is to be killed he is taxed with immorality. These tactics, familiar in party warfare, are a disgrace to those who use them. Luther and Calvin knew... ...importance which historians have hitherto ascribed to the events of public national life. The unknown struggle which goes on in a valley of the Indre ... ...s its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politicians and dan- dies, its army—in short, a whole world of its own. Aft...

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...s, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I maintain, a most selfish and un- patriotic party. He was go... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ...tributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom;... ...oast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one of the party selected for such excur- sions from home. And now, at last, when all ... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara...

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...chy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party, Catherine employed the... ...e crown, seeing how dearly the Duc de Mayenne and the remains of the Guise party sold it to him. The means employed by Catherine, who certainly had to... ... undertaken by the Medici to force their return there, that the Republican party, not content with having shut Catherine, then nine years old, into a ... ... reign of Henri II. to make head against the Guises, the Montmorencys, the Scottish princes, the cardinals, and the Bouillons, he distinguished himsel... ...nces, which have lived in concubinage with Moors, Spaniards, and all other nationalities that adjoined them. This pure, chaste, brave, and loyal provi... ...ne dé Medici Languedoc is only Languedoc; but Touraine is France; the most national river for Frenchmen is the Loire, which waters Touraine. For this ... ...himself to the eyes of young Pardaillan, the officer of the guard, and the Scottish captain. The agitation which, in a royal castle, always attends th... ...g to Mary. “I owe you all respect, and should not dare to do so,” said the Scottish queen, maliciously, glancing at Dayelle. Placed between the rival ... ...rleans. Catherine dé Medici, seeing a chance of support to her policy in a national representation, joyfully agreed to it. The cardi- nal, bent on rec...

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...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ...laning-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go huntin... ...aited till Kennicott should rescue her. The 47 Sinclair Lewis rest of the party waited for the miracle of being amused. Harry and Juanita Haydock, Ri... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...rtillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? T... ...raigned the parliamentary Opposition for having inflated her to serve base party purposes. The Opposition challenged the allegations of Government, po... ...was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation. We were in- sulted,... ...method of enraging him was to distin- guish one or other of them as Irish, Scottish, or Cambrian. He considered it a dismemberment of the country. And... ...nd very happy in fighting them all round. This was during the decay of his party, before the Liberals were defined. A Liberal deprived him of the seat... ...ns of the sublimer House, and laughed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging... ...ls are to kings. The cry for war was absolutely unanimous, and a supremely national cry, Everard Romfrey said, for it excluded the cot- ton-spinners. ... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by... ...herwise it comes to this wild preaching. These men are theory-tailors, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-...

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...of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-discreetly; and p... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...sion to chastise the presumptuous individual, unless it be the leader of a party, therefore a power; for they respect a power. Redworth knew their qua... ...8 Diana of the Crossways where such darts were showering. The first dinner-party was aristocratic, easy to encounter. Lord and Lady Crane, Lady Pennon... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...

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...d a wax-light; the cardinal took a key from his bureau and opening the door of a secret stair descended into the court of the Palais Royal. 13 Dumas ... ...tion ever does the same thing twice.” “No, but they mean to make a Fronde, as they call it,” said Guitant. “And what is a Fronde?” inquired Mazarin. “... ... of the escort. “Just so,” muttered Comminges, looking after Mazarin. “True, I forgot; provided he can get money out of the people, that is all he wan... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ... ...take the king and place him in the Hotel de Ville? It is a shame to leave him to be educated by our enemies, who will give him evil counsel; whereas, ... ...surrendered to the parlia- mentary troops, whilst Oxford and Newark still held out for him in the hopes of coming to some arrangement. At one of the e... ...romwell has arrived this night at Newcastle.” “Ah!” exclaimed the king, “to fight?” “No, sire, but to buy your majesty.” “What did you say?” “I said, ... ...all out your regiment,” said he; “I can foresee that we shall have need of it directly.” Winter turned his horse and the two friends rode on. It had t...

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... themselves till something should amuse them. Among this strangely mingled party were some men with whom Lucien had had transactions, combining ostens... ...m to the sense of his new position. “What is that, my dear boy?” “I have a party.” “There is a Lucien party?” said Vernou, smiling “Finot, the boy has... ... delightfulest of prom- enades, are impossible in the evening for a family party. The police has failed to take advantage of the outlet afforded by so... ...ne forms, when grief had furrowed that network of delicate veins. Esther’s nationality proclaimed it- self in this Oriental modeling of her eyes with ... ...dull rebellion, of which Esther her- self did not know the cause. Like the Scottish sheep, she wanted to pasture in solitude, she could not conquer th... ...in Paris such vehement promenaders, real gendarmes watching a recalcitrant National Guardsman, bailiffs taking steps to effect an arrest, creditors pl... ...6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life those Parisians who are born to be of any nationality they please. But I do not advise that you should give yourself ... ...will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. It is a strange thing that most men of action have a tendency ... ...d towards the goal where the trum- pets and gifts of victory await patient politicians. Lucien had taken Beaudenord’s bachelor quarters on the Quai Ma...

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...wever, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be f...

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...candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a histori... ...ath bid us good-night?” “He died the death of a fat buck,” said one of the party, “being shot with a crossbow bolt, by old Thatcham, the Duke’s stout ... ...yed to his own apartment, there to sleep himself sober at his leisure. The party then broke up, and the guests took their leave; much more to the cont... ...ne, “wherefore you have shown yourself so desirous to accompany me on this party?” “I told you my motive,” said T ressilian, “when I took share in you... ...et let him take care of me. I fly him now, as heretofore; but if, like the Scottish wild cattle, I am vexed by frequent pursuit, I may turn on him in ... ... whole country around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her ... ...entinel, made up to Leicester, and spoke with him. Varney was one of those politicians whom not the slight- est appearances escape without inquiry . H... ...r Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the T ower of London, and the national treasure deposited there. My father and grand-father needed never ...

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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ... We have come to see more and more clearly how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things.... ...r—the sacred principle of Free Trade has always impressed me as a piece of party claptrap; but I have never been able to understand how an attempt to ... ..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s...

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...cal Representative Bodies ........................................................................................................ 181 Chapter XVI Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government ................................................... 196 Chapter XVII Of Federal Representative Governments ................................................................

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...es of the moment, which con trivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggrega ... ...al basis for institutions, of their being in harmony 11 J S Mill with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing ... ...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ...o the other. Economy, for example, equally preserves the existing stock of national wealth, and favors the creation of more. A just distribution of bu... ...almost sure to be overthrown as soon as the head of the government, or any party leader who can muster force for a coup de main , is willing to run s... ...t in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? Politicians are fond of treating it as the dream of en thusiasts that the ... ...eral movement of the world. The same remark applies to the Welshman or the Scottish High lander as members of the British nation. Whatever really ten...

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...of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so lim- ited as Scottish jurisprudence, on which he has composed an admirable work. He marr... ...d, and returned not again. If the last Lord Rutherford was the unfortunate party, he must have been the third who bore that title, and who died in 168... ...that time to become ac- 7 Sir Walter Scott quainted with the history of a Scottish family above the lower rank; and strange things sometimes took pla... ... particularly shone in painting horses, that being a favourite sign in the Scottish villages; and, in tracing his progress, it is beautiful to observe... ...g what was probable than affirming anything posi- tively, they asked which party was likely to have the advan- tage in stating and enforcing the claim... ...self that his own interest and safety, as well as those of his friends and party, depended on using the present advantage to the uttermost against you... ...and Tory, and when these nick- names shall only be used among coffee-house politicians, as ‘slut’ and ‘jade’ are among apple-women, as cant terms of i... ...n disposed to listen to such the other day, or even if I had been the wily politicians which you have been taught to be- lieve me, you, Master of Rave... ...w where he lies, no doubt?” “Ken where he lies!” answered the sexton, with national in- direction of response. “I ken whar a’body lies, that lies here...

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...ts to con- nect his own human institutes with the venerable sanctions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historical... ...ing such, you will participate in all advantages, if any there are, or our national religion; and, without needing a process of conversion, either in ... ...any separate choice of your own, on becoming a Roman citizen, you become a party to the Roman worship.’ For an idolatrous religion to proselytize, wou... ...ituents in pagan idolatries. First, then, as to the CULTUS, or form of the national worship:—In our Christian ritual I recognise these separate acts; ... ...ning was, that he gave a dinner. And not only was every sacrifice a dinner party, but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the ... ...ism, as may be seen in the Iliad: it was not said, ‘Agamemnon has a dinner party to-day,’ but ‘ Agamemnon sacrifices to Apollo.’ Even in Rome, to the ... ...ould allow himself to touch it without gloves, it is to be wished that our Scottish brethren would resign, together with ‘backslidings,’ to the use of... ...after as a man sows shall he reap.’ The objections are overwhelming to the Scottish use of the word; first, because already in Scotland it is a barbar... ...hin so short a period were born 87 Thomas de Quincey subterraneously,* in Scottish mines, or in the English collieries of Cumberland, and were suppos...

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...rer wit, I pray you to refer it back to this night, and point to that as a Scottish passage for evermore. I thank you again and again, with the energy... ...hearty. I drooped to see twenty Christophers in one. I began to think that Scottish life was all light and no shadows, and I began to doubt that beaut... ... great means of refining and improving its people, and one great source of national pride and honour. You have in America great writ ers—great writer... ...r here, even here, upon neutral ground, where we have no more knowledge of party difficulties, or public ani mosities between side and side, or betwe... ...terary and Social 37 The good work, however, in spite of all political and party differences, has been well begun; we are all interested in it; it is ... ...ers; and it was this which made the damage done to a single picture in the National Gallery of London, by some poor lunatic or cripple, a mere matter ... ...o plain prose some words of Hamlet—not with reference to any government or party (for party being, for the most part, an irrational sort of thing, has... ...entenary celebration being in hand, it occurred to him to represent to the National Shakespeare Committee their just and reasonable claim to participa... ...—I am no stranger—and I say it with the deepest gratitude—to the warmth of Scottish hearts; but the warmth of your present welcome almost de prives m...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...; and he felt it his duty to supplement this last – the trait is laughably Scottish – by a dialogue of his own composition, where his own private shad... ...irulent skirmish; and Burns found him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit... ...period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, who, w... ...es, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper party waited for its laureate’s word; but on the appearance of Burns, this ... ...man would thank you: he would thank you to open the door. With what regret Scottish James I. be- thought him (in the next room perhaps to Charles) of ... ...5 Henry V . had two distinguished prisoners, French Charles of Orleans and Scottish James I., who whiled away the hours of their captivity with rhymin...

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...resent the absent godfather. After that, he must go; he had written to his Scottish cousins to offer a visit, and he had a promise that he should soon... ... “Dr. May!” cried the indignant voice of Hector Ernescliffe, as his honest Scottish face flushed like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides l... ...t my power, Thou bonnie gem. —Burns. “IS THIS ALL the walking party?” exclaimed Mr. Ernescliffe, as Miss Winter, Flora, and Norman gather... ...urch—but it is a bad place to live in here.” No one could deny it, and the party left the cottage gravely. Alan and Norman joined them, having heard a... ...place at church among the boys. Again, in returning, he slipped out of the party, and was at home the first, and when this re- curred in the afternoon... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ...ing mamma here now and then for a treat, because it put her in mind of her Scottish hills. Well, your’s are the golden hills of heaven, now, my Maggie... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ... of hearing those spelled over for ever; they have some nicer books at the national school.” “What is the name of them? Do you see any of them here?” ...

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... Lady Mary Palliser. He had come back to England somewhat before the ducal party, and the pleasures and occupations of London life had not abated his ... ...ering the House of Commons, if he did enter it, as one of the Conservative party. This had been a terrible blow to the Duke; and he be- lieved that it... ...merits of political liberalism, and the duty of adhering to the old family party, while his mind was en- tirely preoccupied with his daughter? It had... ...ted. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by t... ... Liberals, when some dozen unexpected votes had been acquired, the leading politicians of that party should have found themselves compelled to look ab... ...he falling friend is apt to be deserted. There was a general feeling among politicians that Lord Drummond’s ministry,—or Sir Timothy’s—was failing, an... ...mean. They drift into matrimony. But she will not spare him. It would be a national triumph. All the States would sing a paean of glory. Fancy a New Y... ...ith Lady Mabel, and discussed with great elo- quence the general beauty of Scottish scenery. An hour went on in this way. Could it be that she knew th...

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...e chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the H... ... there is no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and ... ...ents. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would at least have worked ... ...een cherished in thankfulness for a country drama. There would have been a party against her, cold people, critical of her pretensions to rise from an... ...d sphere to be mistress of Patterne Hall, but there would also have been a party against Sir Willoughby, composed of the two or three revolutionists, ... ...esign myself if I have not been popular among them. I could not sing their national song—if a congery of states be a nation—and I must confess I liste... ...ave him?” “As much as Mont Blanc knows that he is going to be climbed by a party below. He sees a speck or two in the valley.” “He has not spoken of i... ...upward, like a smoke-wreath. “Are you for Irish scenery?” “Irish, English, Scottish.” “All’s one so long as it’s beautiful: yes, you speak for me. Cos... ...e Irish or half Irishmen are my taste. If they’re not 335 George Meredith politicians, mind; I mean Irish gentlemen. I will never have another dinner...

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...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ...that is not better expressed than was usual before he appeared to lead the national taste. Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I ... ...Tom being thus suddenly dragged into ludicrous notice in pres- ence of the Scottish Doctors, to whom he was ambitious of appearing to advantage, was g... ...cotland with a good humoured pleasantry, which gave me, though no bigot to national prejudices, an op- portunity for a little contest with him. I havi... ...e had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us, and that their national petulance re- quired periodical chastisement. ‘Speaking of a dull ... ...they come to it; and certainly, a man who con- quers nineteen parts of the Scottish accent, may conquer the twentieth. But, Sir, when a man has got th... ...d affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have something ... ...mith at General Paoli’s. I spoke of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only... ...ht, as to maintain, that a member of parlia- ment should go along with his party right or wrong. Now, Sir, this is so remote from native virtue, from ...

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... gnawing pain of hunger. The spectacle of so much existence, individual or national, to which these pledges bore witness, ended by numbing his senses—... ...ench centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or... ...y school, and all strong intellects ever since time began. So now Royalist-national ideas must be inculcated, by proving to us that it is far better t... ...rimitive rule, more or less skilfully managed. For example, in remote ages national strength lay in theocracy, the priest held both sword and censer; ... ...nion? That is the most vicious jade of all. According to you moralists and politicians, the laws you set up are al- ways to go before those of nature,... ...n through me if I had ventured to spend a couple of hours in some pleasure party. “Imagine the most wandering imagination and passionate temperament, ...